pump propere

Man, you must be surfing some real dribble. Good on ya for getting out there.

Wish I could help, but I have only purchased my first lb this year and still figuring it out.

 

Same as a short board (not the hopping way) just more heel toe and it’s slower. Let the wave dictate it and you’ll feel it.

 

Really just walk to the nose and find that sweet spot . pumping a longboard takes away from the grace and style of long boarding .

also takes away from the cool factor.imo

 

Do not buy an inflatable longboard.
They leak.

 

It’s all in the hips.

 

It's like dancing to jazz. Gotta feel da groove. DO NOT PUMP. Just wiggle the hips and let the board do the work. Shuffle up to gain speed, shuffle back to turn. Let the wave dictate.

Keep the head erect hahahaha

 

Instead of repetitively creating lift like on a sb by weighting and unweighting, I feel like I get some good drive on a log from more of a rail to rail rolling motion. It definitely feels different but I love that feeling when done right.

I need to practice cross stepping my log this summer. I can shuffle all day, but it ain’t perty. Looks pretty suite when ppl effectively walk it.

 

The propere way, it's easy: just walk to the front (aka nose) and hang your toes off the nose. Then stand up straight, arch you back for full pumping effect.


Your pal
Mr Belmar

 

So... there's some physics behind this. (yawn.... cricket, cricket...)

You really don't get much acceleration out of pumping a single fin, because the fins are symmetrically foiled with not toe-in or cant. You can get a slight bit of acceleration with a "climb and drop" sort of approach, but not true pumping like you do on a multi-finned board.

So unless you're riding a light and highly rockered HPLB with sidebites, don't attempt to pump for speed.

 

Rather than pump, I get into a bottom-turn / top-turn rhythm where i'm getting the highest line possible in each section. Where I would be pumping a SB, I'm trimming a highline on my LB.

...then i stretch my arms out in front and try my best to look like Mike Hynson

 

Omg this lady has such the moose knuckle lol

 

It's a dude!

 

Yup... all of those boards are multi-finned HPLBs. You can tell by how they bounce around, how they turn, and how they noseride. You can't do all that stuff on a log.

 

That was the very first thing I noticed.
Is that wrong of me???

 

I sometimes see a long difficult-to-make section stand up down the line and the shortboard instinct to pump kicks in even on a log. The problem is (like you say) you have to do it a lot slower and give the board time to come up the face. If I get it right, and for me its only frontside, i can get a good burst of acceleration with maybe one or two good pumps on the longboard. I'm riding a fairly thin, well rockered 9'0" but with a single fin.

 

And a nasty green crooked grill too, Tow Mater from "Cars" has a better grill lol